Quotes
Quotes
Lines worth keeping — a quiet shelf to return to.
18 results
“You should not honor men more than truth”
— Plato
“Education is teaching our children to desire the right things”
— Plato
“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
— Plato
“There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain”
— Plato
“Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.”
— Plato
“When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them”
— Plato
“Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.”
— Plato
“Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow”
— Plato
“Love is a serious mental disease”
— Plato
“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.”
— Plato
“One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors”
— Plato
“Only the dead have seen the end of war”
— Plato
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light”
— Plato
“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men”
— Plato
“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something”
— Plato
“A dog has the soul of a philosopher.”
— Plato
“The more they think of making a fortune the less they think of virtue, for when riches and virtue are placed together in the scales of balance, the one always rises as the other falls...”
— Plato
“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything”
— Plato